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| Title | POST-OCCUPANCY PERFORMANCE OF (LEED) GREEN CERTIFIED BUILDINGS IN EGYPT |
| Type | MSc |
| Supervisors | Osama Saad Khalil, Tarek Saad Elhinnawy |
| Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | In the last few years there has been an increasing interest in green buildings and there is a general movement towards a more sustainable built environment. Property owners, designers, and contractors always have to overcome a lot of challenges to fulfill building occupants ‘needs and owner requirements while keeping their negative impacts on the environment, economy and society to the minimum. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system has embodied the efforts of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) to recognize buildings designed to achieve superior performance in several areas including energy &water consumption. Given the emergent interest in improving buildings' energy efficiency, researchers have generated predictive physical and data-driven models for energy consumption. Although the physical approaches aiming to calculate the energy consumption behavior at the building level are accurate, the necessity of continuously inspecting and gathering data for all the input parameters often makes these approaches impractical in some applications. Numerous commercial and office buildings in Egypt have created sustainability agendas, including construction of certified sustainable buildings. more than 17 buildings in Egypt are (LEED) certified building. In order to assess if these rated buildings are performing as expected, a post occupancy evaluation (POE) framework was developed and implemented on 4 fully occupied buildings for more than a year, all of them are office buildings. The objective of this study is to introduce a novel assessment method that investigates the correlation between LEED certification and the actual energy & water consumption by investigating a case study of LEED-certified buildings in Egypt. POE Framework was concluded from international studies and literature review. The selected indicators address a range of parameters using quantitative data collection methods via investigative and diagnostic techniques. The dataset includes water and energy consumption, feedback from facility manager departments and designers. The findings highlight large variations in terms of energy and water consumption, LEED Certified Buildings have also shown to be less sustainable over time. The findings also indicate the LEED rating system may generate skewed savings expectations, as feedback is poorly considered. |
| Keywords | POE, Green Building, LEED, Egypt |
| University | Benha |
| Country | Egypt |
| Full Paper | - |
| Title | POST-OCCUPANCY PERFORMANCE OF (LEED) GREEN CERTIFIED BUILDINGS IN EGYPT |
| Type | MSc |
| Supervisors | Osama Saad Khalil, Tarek Saad Elhinnawy |
| Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | In the last few years there has been an increasing interest in green buildings and there is a general movement towards a more sustainable built environment. Property owners, designers, and contractors always have to overcome a lot of challenges to fulfill building occupants ‘needs and owner requirements while keeping their negative impacts on the environment, economy and society to the minimum. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system has embodied the efforts of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) to recognize buildings designed to achieve superior performance in several areas including energy &water consumption. Given the emergent interest in improving buildings' energy efficiency, researchers have generated predictive physical and data-driven models for energy consumption. Although the physical approaches aiming to calculate the energy consumption behavior at the building level are accurate, the necessity of continuously inspecting and gathering data for all the input parameters often makes these approaches impractical in some applications. Numerous commercial and office buildings in Egypt have created sustainability agendas, including construction of certified sustainable buildings. more than 17 buildings in Egypt are (LEED) certified building. In order to assess if these rated buildings are performing as expected, a post occupancy evaluation (POE) framework was developed and implemented on 4 fully occupied buildings for more than a year, all of them are office buildings. The objective of this study is to introduce a novel assessment method that investigates the correlation between LEED certification and the actual energy & water consumption by investigating a case study of LEED-certified buildings in Egypt. POE Framework was concluded from international studies and literature review. The selected indicators address a range of parameters using quantitative data collection methods via investigative and diagnostic techniques. The dataset includes water and energy consumption, feedback from facility manager departments and designers. The findings highlight large variations in terms of energy and water consumption, LEED Certified Buildings have also shown to be less sustainable over time. The findings also indicate the LEED rating system may generate skewed savings expectations, as feedback is poorly considered. |
| Keywords | POE, Green Building, LEED, Egypt |
| University | Benha |
| Country | Egypt |
| Full Paper | - |
| Title | POST-OCCUPANCY PERFORMANCE OF (LEED) GREEN CERTIFIED BUILDINGS IN EGYPT |
| Type | MSc |
| Supervisors | Osama Saad Khalil, Tarek Saad Elhinnawy |
| Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | In the last few years there has been an increasing interest in green buildings and there is a general movement towards a more sustainable built environment. Property owners, designers, and contractors always have to overcome a lot of challenges to fulfill building occupants ‘needs and owner requirements while keeping their negative impacts on the environment, economy and society to the minimum. The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system has embodied the efforts of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) to recognize buildings designed to achieve superior performance in several areas including energy &water consumption. Given the emergent interest in improving buildings' energy efficiency, researchers have generated predictive physical and data-driven models for energy consumption. Although the physical approaches aiming to calculate the energy consumption behavior at the building level are accurate, the necessity of continuously inspecting and gathering data for all the input parameters often makes these approaches impractical in some applications. Numerous commercial and office buildings in Egypt have created sustainability agendas, including construction of certified sustainable buildings. more than 17 buildings in Egypt are (LEED) certified building. In order to assess if these rated buildings are performing as expected, a post occupancy evaluation (POE) framework was developed and implemented on 4 fully occupied buildings for more than a year, all of them are office buildings. The objective of this study is to introduce a novel assessment method that investigates the correlation between LEED certification and the actual energy & water consumption by investigating a case study of LEED-certified buildings in Egypt. POE Framework was concluded from international studies and literature review. The selected indicators address a range of parameters using quantitative data collection methods via investigative and diagnostic techniques. The dataset includes water and energy consumption, feedback from facility manager departments and designers. The findings highlight large variations in terms of energy and water consumption, LEED Certified Buildings have also shown to be less sustainable over time. The findings also indicate the LEED rating system may generate skewed savings expectations, as feedback is poorly considered. |
| Keywords | POE, Green Building, LEED, Egypt |
| University | Benha |
| Country | Egypt |
| Full Paper | - |
